Well, since Fortuna has been quite busy last night, our draw of the winner has been slightly delayed. First of all, thanks so much for your nice comments! And since so many of you took part, I decided to not only give away the book to the winner, but to give 2 surprise consolation gifts to 2 more people. Who that is…take a look:

Since 2 years Hubert Schirneck (the author) and I present certain animals in the awesome German children's magazine »Gecko«. It's always a bit of fibbing and a play on words, which makes it really fun (and a bit difficult to get across to English readers). For example: In German migrant birds are called Zugvögel, with Zug originally meaning the trek, but it also means train, so of course we HAVE to explain in a fun way why they are called train birds ;) Same goes for raccoons (=washing bears in German) or trunk fish (=suitcase fish in German) and so on…I am really happy that our series was made into a picture book at Annette Betz and that it turned out this well. So, to share my joy I am giving away one copy in German. Just leave a comment below until this friday, July, 11th. Good luck!

Gosh, it's July already! Half a year is gone in the blink of an eye. I had a very busy, thus very productive first half (sorry for neglecting this space here a bit) and I was very eager to take a break in June, at the sea, on my favourite island. It was a blast and now that I'm back I really get sentimental over finding beach sand here and there. Hello July! Hello 2nd half of the year!